Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #5
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #5: Christie Carson We are delighted to announce another plenary speaker: Christie Carson! She will join us to deliver a plenary titled ‘Influencing Editors, Influencing Performers: the Page to Stage relationship’. Dr Carson is Reader in Shakespeare and Performance at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has co-edited The … Read more
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #4
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #4: Jonathan Dollimore This just in: we’re happy to announce that Professor Jonathan Dollimore will be leading a plenary session at BritGrad! All of us on the BritGrad committee are delighted to welcome him to the Institute this June, where he will deliver a talk tentatively titled ‘On Human … Read more
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #3
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #3: Jonathan Slinger We hope you are all as excited as we are to hear that Jonathan Slinger is one of our plenary speakers for BritGrad 2013. Slinger graduated from RADA in 1994 and since then has made a big name for himself on TV, radio, and the stage. … Read more
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #2
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #2: Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson In the second post in our series, we turn now to Martin Wiggins and Catherine Richardson, who we’re happy to announce will be leading a site-specific drama workshop for all delegates, as part of their ‘Staging Places’ project. Read on for more details: … Read more
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #1
Getting to Know Your Plenary Speakers #1: Mairi Macdonald As you may know, we have already confirmed a few plenary speakers for this year’s conference (see the CFP for more details!). We figured that the more curious and excitable of you out there are probably dying to know more about them. We can’t blame you. … Read more
Registration is open!
Friends, postgrads, countrymen…lend us your abstracts! We come to open BritGrad registration. The research that men do lives after them, The best is often entered in their papers, So let it be with BritGrad. (What are you waiting for? Get registering now! See the CFP and poster for more details.) … Read more
Plenary Recordings
Audio recordings of five plenary sessions are now available, hosted at Backdoor Broadcasting. Whether you missed the whole conference, just one session, or the last half of an important note,* these recordings are for you. Many thanks to our speakers for their permission to record sessions. We hope you enjoy! 1. Peter Holland (Notre Dame): … Read more
The 2012 Programme **new and improved**
It’s official! The programme is set! The committee are jubilant, and we hope you are, too. [If not, you know how to reach us via e-mail.] **UPDATE** We’ve made some changes to the schedule, but I everyone directly affected has been contacted personally. Please take a look at the newest programme, linked below, to adjust … Read more
Rene Weis joins BritGrad 2012 line-up.
We here at BritGrad headquarters are pleased to announce to you one final plenary speaker: René Weis! Weis is Professor of English at University College London. He has studied at the University of Edinburgh, the Università per stranieri di Perugia, and at UCL. In addition to professorial duties, Weis is the UCL Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace … Read more
Deborah Shaw confirmed for plenary!
It is our pleasure to announce that Deborah Shaw, Director of the World Shakespeare Festival and RSC Associate Director, will give a plenary session at this year’s conference. Shaw joined the RSC in 2006 to direct the Complete Works Festival. Before that she served as Director of the Bath Shakespeare Festival, Artistic Director of Chester Gateway … Read more
